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Leslie Marmon Silko’s «Ceremony»: The Recovery of Tradition

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Leslie Marmon Silko’s The Recovery of Tradition is a study of the embedded texts that function as the formal and thematic backbone of Leslie Marmon Silko’s 1977 novel. Robert M. Nelson identifies the Keresan and Navajo ethnographic pretexts that Silko reappropriates and analyzes the many ways these texts relate to the surrounding prose narrative.

197 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2008

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